Extreme Engineering: Super Stadium
Posted by Babu Rao on 11 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Documentaries
It’s not just the cool steel-ribbon gift wrapping that makes the new Arizona Cardinals stadium radically different; it’s everything, from the “Starchitect” design by Peter Eisenman, to North America’s first slide-out tray field, to the “pie-slice” construction method, engineered to keep costs to a trim $350 million.
There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too.Hear author Mark Jenkins and National Geographic’s Boyd Matson talk about what could be considered the largest cave in the world, the 2.5-mile Hang Son Doong, or mountain river cave, along the Vietnam-Laos border.Is it the World’s Biggest Cave? More than three times the height of Niagara Falls, much of Vietnam’s Mountain River Cave has remained untouched by humans until now.
1,700,000 years ago in Africa, Homo ergaster, an ancient predecessor of modern humans, had to scavenge to survive. They lived in the elements among the monsters of the day, like the saber-toothed cat. Over time, early humans evolved and developed simple tools, began to communicate, and learned to control their most important tool: fire.
December 21 2012. Doomsday fanatics claim that this is when life on Earth will come to an end. But what does science have to say about this looming apocalypse What real threats could possibly bring about cataclysmic changes on Earth in 2012.
For most people the image of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, was not only a scene of unforgettable horror, it was a moment of unimaginable consequence. Within days, NOVA began following a blue ribbon team of forensic engineers as they began searching for clues that would tell them why the towers fell.
Narrated by Peter Coyote this PBS documentary follows the dramatic development of the Boeing 777. This program takes you inside board room meetings and onto the factory floor. Watch the detailed design and tedious building process as the Boeing Company races to meet deadlines. The risky and suspenseful testing process leads to the Boeing 777’s first flight. From the drawing board to the sky Boeing’s flagship is created.
A feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical life ground attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a Resource-Based Economy.
They are the most powerful objects in the universe.Nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole.Astronomers now believe there are billions of them out in the cosmos, swallowing up planets, even entire stars in violent feeding frenzies.New theoretical research into the twisted reality of black holes suggests that three-dimensional space could be an illusion.That reality actually takes place on a two-dimensional hologram at the edge of the universe.
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